Hi everybody. Heres the place to show off your second drum kit. You may not use them much, sense there your backup kits or you use it for gigs but thats okay! Show off your poor neglected drum sets here!

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It's not the instrument that makes you sound good, it's you that makes the instrument sound good.

I have three "Second Kits" that I use equally for practice and gigs.
I really can't call them Second Kits, because of the use that I give them.
I play my main kit less than I play my other kits.
My main kit (74 Gretsch) stays set up at home and I do play it every day.
There is also almost always one of my Second Kits set up next to my First Kit.

My Sonor Force 2001 set that I pieced together a piece at a time. Each piece was a different finish so I refinished them to match. The idea was to have a set that I could leave where we practice and if someone banged it while I wasn't around I wouldn't lose sleep over it. I ended up using it for some small gigs and really liked it. Haven't used it other than for practice in a while.

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Sonor Sonic Plus Birch/German made

Last edited by Masheanhed; 12-13-2010 at 03:03 AM.
Reason: Misspelling

Is it just me, or do many of us become attached to our practice kits that we say that we don't care about, but would miss terribly if something happened to them.

I enjoy my practice kits as much as I enjoy my main kit.

I found that after I put umpteen hours in refinishing my "practice" kit I begin to baby it like a high dollar drum. Three years and many, many practices later it only has one very small ding and I cussed like a sailor when it happened.

Only pic i have of my second kit....... i use it when i get to lazy to break down the main.....which is becoming more often than not.

I restored two of the drums myself.... the bass drum is a 18" Tama Star Classic. i filled in all the mounting holes and lined the inside with spray on truck bed liner lol. the ride tom is a 13" 70's Gretsch ( no truck bed liner for it ). Floor tom is a stock 14" Gretsch catalina. i use a 68 Ludwig super sensitive as the snare.
I like to use my Saluda cymbals with this kit.
13" Earthworks fusion hats
20" Definitive jazz ride
19" Glory thin crash ( on my left... sweet as a ride cymbal also )
18" Mist crash

Yamaha Oak custom is my main...... has a much different look now. Recent shots in the "show your yamaha's" post. ( for those interested )